English 8

English – Grade 8
Quarter 2 – Module 18: Distinguishing Different Types of Irony
First Edition, 2020

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 8
English
Quarter 2
Self-Learning Module 18
Distinguishing Different Types of Irony
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 8 Self-Learning Module on Distinguishing Different

Types of Irony.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the Learner:

Welcome to the English 8 Self-Learning Module on Distinguishing Different

Types of Irony.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS
This is your self-instructional learner module in English 8. All the
activities provided in this lesson will help you learn and distinguish the
different types of irony.

PRETEST

Identify whether the given example is verbal irony, situational irony or

dramatic irony. Write the answer on the space before the number.

__________ 1. Nadine witnessed his boyfriend’s rude attitude towards his

mother, with sarcastic stare she said “nice”.
__________ 2. You’re crying while watching your favorite “teleserye” because
you’ve seen the scene wherein the main character’s mother is
dying while the main character is continuously doing his work
away from his family knowing that everything is ok.
__________ 3. SpongeBob was crying because he thought he just committed
a crime of stealing a balloon from a balloon store during the
free balloon day.
__________ 4. You promised yourself to rest today until you noticed you’ve
been working for almost the whole day.
__________ 5. You know that all the characters involved in a murder case
whom the main character is searching for.

Here are the answers with explanation.

1. Verbal irony - the word “nice” doesn’t really mean nice but the opposite.
2. Dramatic irony - you as the viewer knows what’s happening while the
character in the drama knows the opposite.
 3. Situational irony - Spongebob didn’t expect it’s a free balloon day after
thinking he might end up behind bars. What happened was the
opposite of what was expected.
4. Situational irony - You didn’t expect to work during your rest day.
5. Dramatic irony - You know what the main character doesn’t know.

RECAP

In your previous lesson, you identified figures of speech that shows

emphasis specifically Litotes. We learned that Litotes, derived from a Greek
word meaning “simple”, is a figure of speech that employs
an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, a positive
statement expressed by negating its opposite expressions.

The use of understatement in the form of litotes adds emphasis to the

ideas presented in the expression, rather than decreasing their importance.
This is due to the ironic effect produced by the understatement.

LESSON

Understanding Irony
In literature, there are three types of irony:

1) Verbal irony is when a speaker or writer says one thing but actually
means the opposite.
For example;
When your nanay walks into your filthy house and says,
“I see you’ve cleaned our house!” Sarcasm is one type of verbal irony.
 To find the verbal irony, ask yourself, what is really being said?
If what the person actually says is not exactly what the person really
means, you likely have verbal irony.

2) Situational irony is when the outcome of a situation is inconsistent

with what we expect would logically or normally occur. It is the reverse
of what we expect will be or happen.
For example;
If a thief’s house was broken into at the same time he was robbing
someone’s house.
To find the situational irony, ask yourself what were you
expecting would happen or what did you expect it to be? If the situation
is something different than what we expect would happen, or is the
opposite of what you might expect someone would say or do, then it is
likely situational irony.

3) Dramatic irony is when the audience or the reader is aware of

something that a character does not know.
For example;
When Romeo believes Juliet is dead, but the audience knows that she
has only been given a potion to sleep.
To identify dramatic irony, ask yourself what did you already
know happened or was going to happen?

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Identify the following examples of irony as situational, dramatic, or verbal
irony by writing the correct answer on the space before the number.
__________ 1. James breaks a date with his girlfriend so he can go alone and
prepare for his wedding proposal. At the restaurant where he
has prepared the proposal, he runs into his girlfriend with
another guy.
__________ 2. “Hurry Maja! Angel is coming! While watching the Legal Wife.
__________ 3. As you walk outside into the pouring rain, your boyfriend
sarcastically comments, “What a lovely weather we’re having
today.”
__________ 4. When watching “Wish Ko Lang”, the audience knows why a
person has been brought on the show. However, the person in
the chair does not know that they are going to be reunited
with a long-lost friend.
__________ 5. You comment on someone’s bad work you’ve been having just
five minutes before your work is ruined by someone.

Activity 2
Look for 3 types of irony in your surroundings. Write down the situation.
Make sure to justify how you categorize it according to the type of irony. Use
the spaces provided for the details.

Situational:

Evidences:
___________________________________________________________________

Verbal:

Evidences:
_____________________________________________________________________
Dramatic:

Evidences:
_____________________________________________________________________

WRAP-UP

Irony is a literary device in which words are used to express a

contradiction between appearance and reality, usually the opposite of what it
seems. It is easy to identify Irony in general. Try to observe its type and see
the differences among the 3 types using this Venn diagram.

Doesn’t
mean Didn’t
Verbal Situational expect it
what it
says. will
happen.
Irony
You know the
opposite of
what he/she Dramatic
expect to
happened.
 POSTTEST

Directions: To practice identifying and labeling the different types of irony,

complete the following activity.

1. You’ve posted on social media about being safe during the pandemic
while in a crowded birthday party.
a. Type of Irony: _______________________
b. Explain your choice: ________________________________________

2. When you have ordered a hot coffee in a café and they serve you an
iced one you’ll say “is this a surprise?”.
a. Type of Irony: _______________________
b. Explain your choice: ________________________________________

3. “Everything is under control” while you see everybody is in chaos.

a. Type of Irony: _______________________
b. Explain your choice: ________________________________________

4. A person “tweets” about how Twitter is a waste of time.

a. Type of Irony: _______________________
b. Explain your choice: ________________________________________

5. When you told your adviser to come to your class to check on some
broken bulbs while your classmates are waiting to surprise her.
a. Type of Irony: _______________________
b. Explain your choice: ________________________________________
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Posttest
1.Type of irony: situational
Explanation: No one would expect a person in a crowd
will warn them to be safe during the social
distancing days.
2. Type of irony: verbal
Explanation: the tone of the speaker is sarcastic that
didn’t mean the positive connotation of the word
surprise.
3. Type of irony: situational / verbal
Explanation: This can be situational if the speaker has
no idea about what is really happening around
him/her and verbal if the speaker means the
opposite and just want to be sarcastic.
4. Type of irony: situational;
Explanation: It is ironic that someone who hates
Twitter so Activity
much would use the Twitter platform to share with 1. Situational
others how useless Twitter is. If the 2. Dramatic
person thought it was such a waste of time, why are 3. Verbal
they using Twitter? 4. Dramatic
5. Type of irony: dramatic; 5. Situational
Explanation: everybody in your class is aware of the
surprise you are about to do while your teacher has
no idea.
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